TV Wakeup Timer
From MythTV Official Wiki
Warning: This script uses a telnet client to access and control the frontend. The frontend does not have a telnet server, but rather a raw unicode socket server. Any telnet control codes will be handled as unicode text by the frontend, and any non-ASCII text will be handled as control codes by the client.
I prefer to have the TV wake me up instead of an alarm clock. With version 0.19 and the new TCP Port Frontend control you can do it. Setup the TV to turn on at whatever time you wish to get up. And then run the following script with cron at the same time.
The script connects to the frontend via telnet, switches to LiveTV and changes the channel.
#!/usr/bin/perl use Net::Telnet; $host = "localhost"; $port = 6546; $channel = 67; $telnet = new Net::Telnet ( Timeout=>10, Port=>$port, Errmode=>'die'); my $length = length($channel); my $counter = 0; my $temp; $telnet->open( $host ); $telnet->waitfor('/#/i'); $telnet->print('jump livetv'); $telnet->waitfor('/#/i'); while( $counter < $length ) { $telnet->print("key " . substr($channel,$counter,1) ); $telnet->waitfor('/#/i'); $counter++; } $telnet->print('exit');